This paper reviews the current state of the art in artificial intelligence (AI) technologies and
applications in the context of the creative industries. A brief background of AI, and …

Efficient rendering of photo‐realistic virtual worlds is a long standing effort of computer
graphics. Modern graphics techniques have succeeded in synthesizing photo‐realistic …

The fidelity of relighting is bounded by both geometry and appearance representations. For
geometry both mesh and volumetric approaches have difficulty modeling intricate structures …

Real-time rendering and animation of humans is a core function in games, movies, and
telepresence applications. Existing methods have a number of drawbacks we aim to …

Nowadays, pre-training big models on large-scale datasets has become a crucial topic in
deep learning. The pre-trained models with high representation ability and transferability …

Creating photorealistic avatars of existing people currently requires extensive person-
specific data capture, which is usually only accessible to the VFX industry and not the …

This paper presents a generic method for generating full facial 3D animation from speech.
Existing approaches to audio-driven facial animation exhibit uncanny or static upper face …

Lensless imaging provides opportunities to design imaging systems free from the constraints
imposed by traditional camera architectures. Due to advances in imaging hardware …

Abstract Conditional Generative Adversarial Networks (cGANs) have enabled controllable
image synthesis for many computer vision and graphics applications. However, recent …

Experience Project Starline, the first photorealistic telepresence system that demonstrably
outperforms 2D videoconferencing systems, as measured by participant ratings, meeting …